Eduardo Sardinha

UX Designer & Project Manager

INETE, Instituto de Educação Técnica · Lisbon, PT

• Led UX and product design for F3 (Erasmus+ KA220-VET): ground-up F3 website redesign, EWS integration, trainings catalog, results area, and blended course UX, unifying research outputs, tools, and partner materials for six countries.
• Redesigned and structured the Early Warning System screening tool with psychologists, teachers, and students: user flows, role system, mobile experience, and features for school sharing and psychologist contact in VET schools.
• Built and shipped an internal Erasmus+ KA1 document generator (Excel to Contract + Europass batch ZIP), reducing mobility prep from hours of copy-paste to a single validated upload.
• Presented EWS and F3 tools during international mobilities at INETE; supported teacher engagement and school-wide mental health initiatives.
• Represented INETE at transnational partner meetings (including Nova Gorica, Slovenia); aligned deliverables and workstreams across five international partners.

Founder

Hopli · Lisbon, PT

Hopli is a digital mental health platform bridging the gap between self-help and therapy through guided self-help. I lead the end-to-end product delivery cycle, from MVP definition and UX-informed requirements to pilot execution and continuous iteration.

• Led end-to-end MVP delivery, integrating social features, journaling, and therapist exercises and feedback through chat.
• Planned and facilitated UX research with students and psychologists to identify key barriers in help-seeking, translating insights into prioritized, scalable interventions.
• Structured pilots with university psychology departments to validate adoption among students and GAPs, coordinating partner inputs and learning loops.
• Owned roadmap and go-to-market planning, aligning university partnerships, therapist onboarding, and community growth around clear delivery milestones.

PhD Student in Clinical Psychology

Ispa, Instituto Universitário, INTEC, FCT (Scholarship) · Lisbon, PT

• Led end-to-end research and product development of a mobile application promoting mental health help-seeking behaviour, managing study timelines, evaluation plans, and cross-disciplinary collaboration between IT and psychology experts.
• Planned recruitment and conducted 16h+ of qualitative interviews with 24 participants, coordinating data collection and performing thematic analysis on usability barriers and facilitators.
• Translated research findings into product requirements, designing core features such as digital goal contracts, self-monitoring tools, in-app prompts, and reward mechanisms.
• Developed a wireframe and UI design mock-up for Click!, in Flutter Flow, coordinating iteration cycles with IT and Psychology experts.
• Led a systematic review of commercially available mental health apps, planning an RCT and operationalizing the app's evaluation protocol and success criteria.

UX Researcher and Designer

INTEC, Instituto de Tecnologia Comportamental · Lisbon, PT

• Designed a low-fidelity wireframe and feature map for a university-targeted mental health mobile app.
• Conducted a survey with 200+ participants, uncovering usability barriers through user personas and customer journeys.
• Developed a mental health app business model, submitted to the Luso-American Development Foundation, collaborating with a UX Researcher, Product Manager and Psychologist, structuring business and technical roadmap.

Trainee Social Psychology Consultant

Factor Social · Lisbon, PT

• Managed the delivery of 5 Adult Education Erasmus+ KA2 projects, coordinating European partners and aligning scope, activities, and timelines; conducted stakeholder interviews on emotional literacy and access to care, translating insights into intervention concepts and actionable workstreams.
• Used survey results to map pain points, engagement patterns and user preferences, and to structure the intervention plan.
• Submitted the Erasmus+ KA2 project "Young and Mentally Literate", aimed at health literacy, defining objectives, roles, and the implementation approach with 4 European partners.
• Collected 100+ participants responses through in-person questionnaires on environmental preservation, feeding the needs analysis and engagement model.